The Nineteenth Byte - 2022-02-04 (page 1 of 3)

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12:14 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Bandwidth of a matrix code-golf matrix A band matrix is a matrix whose non-zero entries fall within a diagonal band, consisting of the main diagonal and zero or more diagonals on either side of it. For example, given this matrix: 1 2 0 0 3 4 5 0 0 6 0 7 0 0 8 9 0 0 0 1 this is the band: 1 2 3 4 ...

@BetaDecay Apparently my favourite SF novel is Poul Anderson's Tau Zero

Instead of a computer making a new universe, humans go past a Big Crunch and into a new Big Bang

12:42 AM

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Q: Output the 12 Bar Blues

Note to those without experience in music: Through making an attempt to solve this problem, you may find that music and computer programming are similar in the ways they implement rules and syntax. With some help from Wikipedia, you can likely solve this problem with no prior knowledge of music t...

OldSandboxPosts

1:00 AM

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: D'Hondt method

Ginger Industries

@OldSandboxPosts sadly, dupe

So fun story from a few nights ago: here's me and I'm trying to get to sleep. My phone is playing a 1 hour loop of fan noises because I like a little white noise while I sleep. It's a file on my phone that I downloaded from YouTube, and I use the stock music app to play it. Now, earlier in the day, I had been listening to a playlist with some of my favourite memes, meaning I'd turned off the song loop option

Instead, I had it on playlist loop

The funny thing is that if you change the loop style on a playlist, it changes it globally

So my fan loop is going, everything is fine

And then an hour later, Big Shot (i.e. A song you don't want blasting at 1am) starts playing

That was because I had forgotten to change the loop setting back to loop song instead of playlist

👏

The real question is why you need fan noises to sleep

that is

incredibly unfortunate

1:12 AM

Needless to say, I had to quickly jump to my phone and quickly down the volume while I changed what was being played to my fan loop

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@user sleeping with white noise playing isn't that uncommon

But the question is, do you want to be a [[big shot]]?

@emanresuA not at 1am when I'm trying to sleep

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@lyxal especially fan noises

1:12 AM

@lyxal "isn't that uncommon"

That's just another way of saying you're a weirdo but >1% of people do it

i mentioned something about listening to audio while sleeping the other day and someone immediately replied "You can admit its asmr bro"

lmao

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lmao

@user sleepfoundation.org/noise-and-sleep/white-noise

@hyper-neutrino You can admit its asmr bro

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it's weird to get your fan noises from not a literal fan or other air moving device
but not that weird

1:13 AM

You too, lyxal ^^

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i've got a small filter tower on 24/7 in my bedroom

@UnrelatedString I don't have any fans but if I did they'd go "Go user!!!" which would be very annoying at night

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@user try telling that to the tens of thousands of videos on YouTube that all have box fan noises

You know what? I will

@UnrelatedString it's a result of another long story

1:15 AM

do y'all ever get that thing where if you try to sleep too late you end up being unable to properly fall asleep and getting into a weird loop of weird dreams and being semi-asleep until you properly wake up and then can sleep properly after

or am I just weird

@hyper-neutrino Sometimes, yeah

Can relate

Although maybe I'm just weird

well, if it's weird, we're all weird, so pog

y'all're just weird

3

1:16 AM

well to be fair going to sleep at 6AM is maybe slightly weird i guess

It's weird when you're asleep enough to have a dream but still awake enough to think and you go "Hey, this dream doesn't have enough dogs in it" so you add dogs to it

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Ginger Industries

@user ಠ_ಠ

@Bubbler Okay but are we also weird when it comes to sleep?

@GingerIndustries ???

What's so bad about it?

@UnrelatedString I used to just rely on a normal fan for noise, but the motor got too worn out from working through the hot summers. So I tried a stronger box fan, but for some reason didn't stick with it. Problem was that I got used to the noise of the stronger fan, which couldn't be replicated by the weaker fan. So I had to find a replacement on my phone.

And now I'm just used to it

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ah
damn

1:18 AM

I should try white noise, honestly, it often takes me an hour to sleep

I have a better fan now (and it's remote controlled too), but habits, I guess.

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wait do you actually have to deal with indoor fans wearing out from summer heat

damn

ah, so that's how you ended up winding up with playing fan sounds on your phone

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🥁

@UnrelatedString well when it's going like 24/7, yes.

1:19 AM

@hyper-neutrino Why is wind in italics?

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it's a pun

@emanresuA because it's a pun

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA r/whooosh

@UnrelatedString It was several years old btw

whoosh is also a pun

1:19 AM

sheeesh

Ginger Industries

@hyper-neutrino that was intentional, glad to see you got it

@lyxal it had served many summers, so it's to be expected that it wore out eventually

I only replaced it in December last year

Ginger Industries

a moment of silence for lyxal's fan

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ah

Ginger Industries

okay moment's over

1:20 AM

This new fan has 6 speeds, and sounds like a jet engine when it's on full speed

So sometimes I put it on full throttle and say "ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking we'll be taking off in roughly 3 minutes"

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Why have something that sounds like a jet engine when you can have an actual jet engine?

Or even better, put your fridge next to your bed

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA and I hear they're great for blowing out candles at birthday parties

@emanresuA because I want to stay cool during the summer, not be melted.

Go to sleep in your fridge, there'll be a lot of white noise.

Can't. Got too much butter taking up room

Ginger Industries

1:24 AM

g2g fr now

Give the butter to NP/SP, it's their birthday soon

Nah, they already have their own supply

Mar 2 '19 at 5:39, by Anonymous

When people steal the jobs of the feed bots (posting stuff before the feed bot does, e.g. New Main Posts and New Sandboxed Posts), we edit the messages of the feed bots to prevent double-oneboxes from taking up a bunch of screen space. It's also one of the few opportunities we get to use our mod powers creatively, so we like to make the bots say silly things.

Hm, mego's chat messages didn't get deleted

I'd rather give my butter stash to vybot

Because I like our beep boop

Same

2:29 AM

I think, therefore I am, therefore I think, therefore I'm smart enough to not get trapped in infinite loops.

That last therefore is a big leap

—-Évident l’y you’re not smart enough to speak logically—-

Gah, i hate phones

im sad, i just wrote an interpreter for bct in my dumb esolang

You should be happy, you've proved it TC

well, yes, i have a funny story there, but thats not what im getting at right now

i did it for this challenge, i forgot about the sixth clause, so its not complete

mine errors on a handful of inputs, and i thought it was fine but it is Not

it fails on inputs with no datastring, which probably is fine but thats not all

it also errors if the program string is just a zero, which is valid code

oh wait, by some miracle, it just works

>:) i dont know why i thought it didnt work

my sad story has become happy now

If you can prove that the subset your program successfully interprets is TC, that's fine.

Oh nvm

2:42 AM

right, thats the way that i remembered it

the sixth clause makes it clear that's now allowed ;_;

ill do a few more tests just to make sure ^_^

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough

Cool dude but I can’t stop laughing at his name

Did you hear about his brother?

Who?

John Notgoodenough

3:04 AM

Wait, no, my answer fails, the loop is wrong ;_;

i dont know how to explain how its wrong

if the source code is just a 1 it fails, it doesnt know that 1 would be 11

i still want to submit it... but i wont

....i think that it just magically works

ill just elaborate why in the post :)

1 hour later…

4:33 AM

@WheatWizard When are we going to start the Best Of voting?

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1 hour later…

5:39 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Bracket Depth Your challenge is simple, calculate the depth of each matching brackets in the given input e.g. (()()(()))->[[1,1,[1]]], and output it in the form of a list/array/string representation For every nested brackets however, you may assume that you have to create a new list for it Test c...

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

WW hasn't been seen in 3 days, I think we need to ping a different mod

lol

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

@hyper-neutrino Can you start the voting for Best Of?

wats best of voting ?

@SandboxPosts DialFrost really likes nested parenthesis I guess :P

5:44 AM

haha

wats best of voting @taRadvylfsriksushilani

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Where we vote on which posts win for each category

oh

wats the categories

sry lol im still new to stackexchange

how do I do that

ok im gonna go play chess

do I comment under every post

or do I clone every nomination to a post

5:53 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Retaining water Your task is to check the volume of water in a pool. Your have to create a program that takes in a input that is represented by an 10 by 10 grid of letters, with heights ranging from A=1 to Z=26. Find the volume of water each pool can hold. You are given 10 lines of string input, ...

^creds to codingame community

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

In 2020 it seems the same posts were kept

And comments were just added

codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/20638/revisions

ok, so i will just leave a comment per nom per category

do i just announce voting here or should i post a new meta post linking to the page

Announce voting here and rename the nominations page

(keep it featured)

i apologize in advance

to the people who posted the answers

for the amount of inbox spam i am about to send

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

5:59 AM

lol

Can you edit locked posts?

If so, you might want to lock it while making the comments to prevent the Fastest Voter in the West effect :p

It's mostly WW and they've survived worse

I wonder if someone wrote a userscript to help with commenting for Best Of noms

It's kinda unfair how hyper doesn't get to vote

ok i lost lol

(Unless you're doing it through Vyxal bot or something)

@PyGamer0 At what?

a chess match

lol

6:06 AM

Chess is hard

[citation needed]

not rly

i've been playing for 1 year+

and i am sick so my brain doesnt work

tbh i don't have time to look at all the nominations

this is my first time going through best of

how do i deal with the triple nomination on codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/24335/68942

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Copy the markdown in the heading without the #?

like who wins the bounty if that option gets chosen

or do i split it among lyxal, aaron, and username

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

6:09 AM

We can figure that out after I guess

But it'd count as a single thing to vote on, right?

Joint nominations can be voted as a single comment and get split bounties

ok

^^

Although 500 isn't divisible by 3

@emanresuA but 500 is divisible by 2, kick emanresuA out of the nomination /s

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

@emanresuA We have enough extra rep to do 200 for each

6:12 AM

Yeah, we can round up

True

does Jelly have a REPL?

Don't think so but it wouldn't be too hard to make one

Depends how you want it to work for e.g numbered links thoguh

can someone help me interpret something

in c++

flax has a REPL

6:14 AM

what does this mean

vector<vector<int>> a(N,vector<int> (N,0)),b=a;

translate to python pls^

n being an integer

i guess it is [[0 for _ in range(n)] for _ in range(n)]

can someone look over codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24313/… just to make sure i'm doing it right

what should we look at?

comments

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

I don't even think you need the "upvote this comment" part

Just copying and pasting the markdown in the nomination headers should work imo

6:18 AM

hm. well i hate inconsistency and it'd probably be easier to continue this way so i'll just keep doing this ig

6:29 AM

if a category has only 1 nom

i assume it auto wins?

Which category?

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A: Best of CGCC 2021 - Now Accepting Nominations!

Kansas City Shuffle Reposted from 2018 Too often, someone devises a particularly golfy method of solving a challenge, which most people will use that method for their answers. This award goes to those answers that utilize an alternative method as a better solution than the method that the majorit...

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A: Best of CGCC 2021 - Now Accepting Nominations!

Best non-code-golf challenge Repost from 2020 Best challenge with a winning criteria other than code-golf. While code-golf is our bread and butter, we have some very interesting others with fastest-code, proof-golf, atomic-code-golf, (some) code-challenges, etc. Concatenated halting problem: no +...

I'd say they just automatically win

Easy 500 rep for those posts

aight

Oh, one is mine lol

Kansas one does deserve a win, mine is... /shrug

6:42 AM

Voting for the Best of CGCC 2021 is now open! Go cast your votes there - you can vote via the comments where I've added one under each category for each nomination.

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itll take my like 1 year for any of my posts to get in the best of voting

:(

7:22 AM

> Daily comment vote limit reached; try again in 16 hours.

is it night time for most off u guys

cuz nobody online

yeah it's 2:30 AM for me rn

usually pretty quiet around now since it's nighttime for EU and NA

@DialFrost actually 16 people are online

lol

ic thx hyper

y ru awake then lol

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

7:28 AM

i msged someone on codingame y he was awake at 12am in the morning

he gave the exact same answer

XD

@taRadvylfsriksushilani I accidentally showed my younger brother SE Nitro and he loves it

Doesn't understand it at all but he loves it

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nice

@emanresuA congrats for pxeger nomtinating u for "pretty much all their questions"

7:47 AM

@emanresuA same here

Except you know all the lore

I haven't the foggiest who I am there, but it's cool

You appear a couple of times

lol

how come ww doesnt appear

se-nitro.surge.sh/#3-1-23

7:48 AM

@emanresuA not all of it

congrats to lxyal and emanresu for the most awards (i think)

u guys both have 20k lol

@DialFrost WW does - se-nitro.surge.sh/#1-6-3

oh ic

didnt see tat

There's a lot.

i wish i cld code in vxyal or jelly

7:49 AM

~170

@DialFrost I can teach you Vyxal if you want

rly? thx

cuz it seems rly hard to code in it in the first place

i looked at it for 5mins and gave up

how issit possible to teach me tho

Most of it is builtins you can just look up

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^

~~so is jelly~~

Jelly has chaining though, which is a bit harder to golf.

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and also ƙ

on a serious note its documentation is also not super searchable for some things

7:54 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Word Guess KOTH Inspired by Wordle and Evil Wordle. A King of the Hill game where you must write a bot which acts as both Guesser and Judge of a word guessing game. Each bot will play a match against all the other bots. Each match will consist of 10 rounds alternating between judge and guesser. ...

> Daily comment vote limit reached, vote again in 16 hours

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lmao

@emanresuA how do ya plan to teach me :)

Upvote this comment to vote for Totally Cubular in Rusy by tjjfvi. — hyper-neutrino ♦ 2 hours ago

@DialFrost I can't really right now because I'm on mobile

But I'll be here most of tomorrow, ping me when I'm online and I'll come teach you

Or you can ask someone else (maybe ask in Vyxal chat)

okey

7:58 AM

@hyper-neutrino o.0

sleeping late can have massive consequences like waking up late

everytime i try to type vxyal my fingers keep typing lxyal :)

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